Where is the Aerostructures Group headquartered?
Chula Vista, California
What is Rohr's relationship with Goodrich?
On December 22, 1997, Rohr, Inc. and its affiliates were acquired by The BFGoodrich Company, which is now Goodrich Corporation. Rohr remains a separate corporate entity, named Rohr, Inc., incorporated in the state of Delaware. It continues to use its formal name, Rohr, Inc., on contracts and other legal documents and ships its products as the products of Rohr, Inc. Rohr, Inc. is a subsidiary of the Goodrich Corporation operating as Goodrich Aerostructures Group.
When was Rohr founded?
Goodrich Aerostructures was founded as Rohr Aircraft Corp. in San Diego, California in 1940. It was incorporated in Delaware as Rohr Corp. in 1969, and subsequently became Rohr Industries, Inc. in 1971 and as of 1992 became Rohr, Inc. In 1997, it was acquired by Goodrich and now refers to itself as Goodrich Aerostructures.
What are its products?
Aerostructures designs, integrates, manufactures, sells and supports aircraft engine nacelle systems and components for large commercial aircraft. Nacelles are the aerodynamic structures that surround aircraft engines. Typical components of a nacelle system include the inlet, fan cowl, thrust reverser, exhaust cone and exhaust nozzle. Aerostructures also makes pylons (structures that attach engines to aircraft) and provides engine build-up. During engine build-up, Aerostructures installs a variety of different nacelle and engine systems to provide its customers a complete propulsion system.
Who are the Aerostructures Group's major customers?
Aerostructures conducts substantial business with each of the major commercial airframe manufacturers: Boeing, and Airbus. In addition, Aerostructures conducts business with each of the major commercial jet engine manufacturers: General Electric, Rolls-Royce, Pratt & Whitney, CFM International (a corporation jointly owned by General Electric and Societe National d'Etude et de Construction de Moteurs d'Aviation) and International Aero Engines (a corporation jointly owned by Rolls-Royce, Pratt & Whitney, Fiat Aviazone, SpA, Japanese Aero Engines Corporation and MTU Motoren und Turbinen Union Munchen GmbH).
Aerostructures also works on government programs (military and spares) with Boeing, Lockheed Martin, and the United States government.
What aircraft have Aerostructures Group hardware?
Approximately 90% of the aircraft in the world's commercial aircraft fleet, excluding aircraft manufactured in the former USSR, contain one or more Aerostructures products as part of their nacelle, thrust reverser, or pylon systems.
As far as military aircraft, the division has product applications on the Boeing KC-135, AV-8B Harrier, E-6, and F-15. There is also Group content on the Lockheed Martin C-130, C-141, C-5A/B, P-3, F-14, F-16, F-22 and Joint Strkie Fighter. And the division supplies the aft adn forward nose landing gear door for the Air Force's A-10 Thunderbolt II aircraft.
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